ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES Opening Scene (1971) 

The opening scene was filmed on the same beach location where Taylor had discovered the Statue of Liberty in the final scene of Planet of the Apes.

10 Fun facts; 1- That’s Point Dume in Malibu Ca. It a state park. You can go right there. Cost $5 to park. The rock behind them is an old volcano. 2- On the other side of that rock is where Taylor sees the Liberty statue in the first movie. 3- This is the same beach where Tony finds Jeanie’s bottle in the fist episode of I dream of Jeanie. It’s available on RU-vid. Look it up. 4- Up the hill were homes owned by Johnny Carson, soon David Letterman and now Owen Wilson. 5- about five miles inland from that spot is Malibu Creek State Park. Where MASH and the original Planet of the Apes camps were. 6- The hills around that area can be seen in the opening theme song of “The flying nun”. She flies right over there. 7- a few miles down the coast , behind the big rock, is Paradise Cove where Jim Rockford had his trailer on the beach. 8- The helicopter pilot was an actual pilot. He also had his SAG card as an actor. So in every movie and tv show of that era where they used a helicopter… and that was a LOT… this guy got the part. 9- The military guy inside on the radio, went on to play the SWAT commander on Hill Street Blues among other things. 10-Presumably, the Apes brought the germs which killed off all the dogs and cats and other pets in a few years. Which leads to apes becoming pets… and then slaves.. and then the overthrow of mankind. So them coming back in time, actually causes the downfall of man, and the rise of the planet of the apes.

What memories. As a boy, I remember seeing this film when it first played in theaters.

Probably the best of this series of the saga.

Excellent movie! That was true cinema

I was just listening to this score today. Gotta love that Jerry Goldsmith 70's funk.

Brings me back to my teenage years.

Cut it off a few minutes too soon. The Jerry Goldsmith main title music has been living rent-free in my head since I was a child in the early 70s. The visuals coupled with that music is just great cinema.

The helicopter pilot was in every movie and tv show of the 70’s when a helicopter was involved

*this scene is one of the best in all planet of apes saga..*

What a wonderful sequence-I still remember when I first saw this in the cinema all those years ago.

You would think that they would recognize their own Space capsule.

This is the first POTA movie I saw. Opening is a great one.

Funny how they went 3,000 years back in time to mid-seventies America.

That was not Taylors craft, it is too short, it looks more like Virdon and Burkes from the tv series.

It's sacrilege I know, but Escape's probably my favourite of the original film series. It's not as rich as the first film, perhaps, but it more than holds its own in terms of dark satire.

Loved all these movies I had the collectors edition box set, the TV series, I even had an old comic that came with a vinyl record audio book. Loved both the old movies and the new ones, thought they were well done.

this movie was actually very interesting, somewhat sad to see how they go from hollywood stars to seen as creatures

The most smszing film

So lets review, a race of apes who had ZERO knowledge of space travel or rocket science were able to get a spaceship working again, one that had been underwater and no doubt needed refueling among other forms of maintenance. As great as this movie is you gotta admit that's a big stretch.

Assisti a trilogia dos Planeta dos Macacos p/TV nos anos 70. Este foi o ultimo deles. Nao tinha efeitos especiais elaborados, mas, tinha seu charme!

Okay, now I feel like watching this film again, and it is Saturday night right now, so, I may be doing that in an hour or so. I watched it for the first and only time maybe 12 years ago, and I now remember very little of it, which is great because it will be almost like watching it for the first time.

Excelent movie.....thanks...

Excelent movie....

They wouldn't even be surprised today, they would give them a green card.

Half track is WWII equipment. Helicopters are civilian Jetrangers

Guess the General didn’t know there was something hairy under their helmets.

😂😂😂😂LOL....THE LOOK ON THEIR FACES!!!!😂😆😆😆😂😆

Loved all the original Ape films.. Roddy is the only Cornelius/Caesar

宇宙船のコマンドモジュールだけで、どうやって爆発する未来の地球から脱出して飛んで来れた？ この映画を最初に見た時からの疑問

"welcome gentlemen to the uni........" 🤣🤣🤣

Great movie. What movies were all about.

We should have listened to the warning this film series made about the future.

I must say, am I the only one who much prefers these original P.O.T.A movies to the more recent , overly-C.G.I 'd ones?

Nice

They never explained how they recovered Icarus (or got it back into Space) since it sank in the original movie......

Charlton Heston it's Great

Where did the apes get spacesuits from? None of the humans that flew those ships wore them, they were all wearing white flight clothes. Also, didn't Taylor's crew have to use suspended animation to make the trip? How do the apes manage without it? How did they fly backwards in time? Taylor's crew used time dilation to reach the future, that only works one way. How did the apes repair and launch a spacecraft when they were so technologically primitive that they were astounded by a paper airplane flying? I'm beginning to think this movie about intelligent, time travelling chimpanzees is not entirely realistic.

The originals were so much more better than the cgi 💩 they’ve done.

The chimps could not have recovered Taylor's ship because the ship sank with broken front windows and chimps can't swim underwater plus the ship had no power to make it back to Earth's past plus there would be no extra astronaut suits onboard

Oh, and are we just going to ignore that the man who played the commission chairman is the same guy who played Clark W. Griswold, Sr. in Christmas Vacation?

ship is too small

I believe that beach is Malibu, CA.

Hilarious! 🤣

What year in earth years was this scene?

How did they go back in time from the future?

Point Dume in Malibu.

The capsul is confusing, it should be huge. The nose has a escape hatch that Taylor crawled out of. From the windows back it should be as big as a bus.

They opened what they thought was a space ship and had soldiers with guns ready to shoot, but were surprised that the occupants weren't from Ohio?

So was Stewart in there the whole time just turning even yellower?

If that's supposed to be Taylor's ship then why is there no escape hatch on the front of the spacecraft?

Vdd ,os de hj tem mais efeitos visuais e sonoros do que conteúdo e estória!!!

this was '71 but he marines are armed with Korea m-2 carbines and previetnam m-14 rifles. not a m-16 in sight.

タイムスリップSF映画の傑作でもあります😂🤔🐒

Is that Sgt. Bilko in the middle?

How did they get the ship from so far down when it originally sank in the first film

The original Icarus was much larger than this ship.

Truth a phobia

How exactly did they repair that spacecraft?

What's our vector Victor?

Is the spaceship smaller than in the original movie?

How did they get that ship though

That’s not a half-track, it’s a deck crane!

"Take us to your leader" was expected but not delivered, the look on their faces when those helmets came off...The General should have brought a bunch of bananas...

Whats your Vector Victor?

Looks like the area around Camp Pendleton or Zuma

On one hand, this series was so...wonderfully made. On the other, it was so...BAD. I am a man conflicted....

Not only did they have to get the ship back into space, they had to go back in time… 🤷

Well for one it's not called Icarus the name of the space craft was not mentioned also the space was washed up to shore

they should of just claimed asylum!!!! lol

She came all that way just to kiss Taylor again? Maybe a little more than a kiss this time?

Thought it was MASH

And they thought they landed near Chicago 🤣

Sure you brought enough guns.

they would have done the exact same thing if the astronauts had of all been black lol

Just as shocking as some people reacted to some of our recent presidents. We are being played people - learn or be complicit.

Welcome gentleman to the . . . . . . 🤐

You cut off the scene too early. 👎

Mama

Movie name please

Once helmet came off bullet in head

What was their motive for leaving the earth and where did they want to go?

Today the soldiers at the end of this clip wouldn't be shocked. They would just say "Oh, it's Diversity".

I usually skip this part 😂

4:01 OMG, one of them is a woman!!!!

General was shocked because he didn’t expect them to be black

Series should have stopped after the second one. Went downhill fast starting with #3.

A lot more convincing than Apollo,much better acting, makeup and dialogue😊

They found a way around Trumps border wall.

African space program?

Kind of what is going on today with Joe Biden's America.

The concept is interesting, but these just do not hold up at all.

This movie is so racist. I can't believe they included a scene where the apes are smoking Newports.

the best theme of the franchise

Saw this at my local drive-in where I saw the first 2 Ape movies. One thing that struck me as odd in this movie. When Zira gives birth to baby Milo, Lewis offers Cornelius a cigar to which Cornelius takes it, takes a puff, and coughs like he never smoked before but in Beneath the Planet of the Apes we see Cornelius smoking a pipe.

After seeing the original movie: I sought out and read Xan Fielding's translation of Pierre Boule's original book "Monkey Planet". And was struck by how much had been left out or altered. When I first saw 'Escape' it likewise struck me how much of that original book had been levered into the film but in a reversal of the original roles. Which struck me as an interesting paradox.

I like the guitar riff at the end.

🕊🌱🌹💻🖨

Seemed kind of a thin hatch for an interstellar space craft

ok how come the movie dont show the apes blasting off from the launch pad